Colorado Daily: Obama for president

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http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2008/oct/18/editorial-obama-president/

This year’s presidential election has electrified the nation – and younger voters in particular – in a way not seen since Bill Clinton’s first run for the White House in 1992.

It’s an apt comparison; Clinton, a relative outsider lacking Washington experience, unseated the established incumbent, President George H.W. Bush, in large part due to nervous voters’ desire for new footing in troubled economic times.

While Sen. John McCain’s no incumbent, his very deliberate move to side with his former primary rival following George W. Bush’s election in 2000 has allowed the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama to quite accurately paint the alleged “maverick” as a faithful Bush acolyte.

Change has become the buzzword of this election, thanks to Obama’s hard-fought ascension – so much so that D.C. insider McCain, a member of Congress since 1982, has tried to co-opt the mantle as his own.

But if the polls are to be believed, more and more voters are seeing through that, siding – as we plainly do – with the Illinois senator as the best hope for America’s future.

[Trajan]

1. A great paper ...

From a great city ...

I miss you Boulder ....

[Puzzler]

2. It's great that the "steady, calm leadership" meme for Obama has firmly taken hold

in most (or all) of the editorial endorsements I've read so far.